Gustavo Salinas Camina

Gustavo Salinas Camina (17 June 1893-5 March 1964) was Chief of the Air Force of Mexico from 1934 to 1940 under President Lazaro Cardenas.

Biography
Gustavo Salinas Camina was born on 17 June 1893 in Cuatro Cienegas, Coahuila, Mexico. He was the son of Queretaro and Chihuahua governor Emilio Salinas, and he studied aviation in New York City in the United States, graduating from the Moisant Aviation School in 1912. In 1913, he joined the forces of Alvaro Obregon during the Mexican Revolution, and he became the first Lieutenant-General of the Mexican Air Force, studying in France, Belgium, and the United Kingdom. Salinas would serve as Chief of the Air Force with the social democratic National Revolutionary Party of Mexico (PNR) from 1934 to 1940 under President Lazaro Cardenas, and he died in 1964 in Cuatro Cienegas.